Hi Kali
On (09 Nov 96) Kali McLaughlin wrote to Alec Cameron...
 KM> I saw the cars scrutineered and started. I never got to hear the result 
 KM> Thanks. They might not have burned much petrol on the way to Adelaide, 
but
 KM> the amount of water would have been enormous. I felt so sorry for the
 KM> people in those little cockpits.  It looked like the Honda had semi
 KM> transparent cells on the windscreen  .... what do you recon?
I did not notice, all I saw was TV/ newspapers.
A transparent PV cell wouldn't achieve much. The light that makes 
lectricity,
is what is stopped by the cell. That which passes thru is I think "untapped
energy". But in these days of black glassed autos and every other guy wearing
"shades", the driver would probably be happy if rationed to 10% of the
available light for vision, in which case the availability of the remaining
90% for the PV duty, could be good news.
Tough though to drive safely at dusk. Watch out for black cats on tarred
roads!!  Cheers...ALEC
... ........BUNDANOON, on a dirt track leading to the Info Superhighway
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